What happened to those Flutheronians (AKA Jellies_) who join and are never heard from again?

They’ve been… taken care of.

Either they’ve been eaten by Neptune, or [REDACTED BY THE CIA]

They were eaten by the giant squid

A lot of them are spammers and they get terminated. The rest, they just seem to join and never post. I have no idea why, since it’s not necessary to register and log in to simply read. Someone with a name like “newyorklegalservices” will get banhammered straight away just for the name. Some signups put spam in their profile, and they get banhammered too, as soon as we spot them. They seem to usually have normal sounding names like “MarySmith” and “PeterJones”. We try to look at the profiles of all new joiners within a couple of hours, and those normal sounding names are the ones I tend to check first.

Then you get the ones with nonsense names like “fharelfm” which are almost certainly spam-bots. We don’t bother them unless they actually post something spammy though.

Just for curiosity’s sake I went through the list of new sign-ups over the past 6 hours. Out of 31 signups, 26 have already been banned. So the ratio is pretty high.

“Banhammered” Har har har har!